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In Reply to: RE: A few [way excellent] opinions posted by goldenthal on May 12, 2017 at 13:48:12
The Busch Don Giovanni is terrific, but I have never heard the corresponding Figaro - need to correct that!
Toscanini's Otello belongs in every opera lovers' collection, as it is in mine. Haven't heard it in a long time. His Falstaff probably does, too, but I have never warmed to the opera. He recorded Ballo as well, but that one I haven't heard.
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I should have mentioned that the Busch Figaro omits dialogue -- still, the performance is extraordinary. I've never heard the Busch Giovanni, but your mentioning it will cause me to seek it out. Last, I urge another hearing of the Toscanini Falstaff -- I think it's Verdi's greatest opera, and the performance has yet to be equaled.
Good to chat with you,
Jeremy
I assume you meant recitative, not dialogue since there is none.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
OK, recit then -- aging without grace.
Jeremy
Travis...there is in Carmen and others....sprechtstimme. Spoken dialogue as opposed to recitative which is sung and moves the plot forward. Aria is sung and expresses feelings about the charter, or conditions of the moment.
I know.
I was answering another poster about Marriage of Figaro which does not have dialogue. It has recitative.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
The other poster knows too -- thoughtless he is.
Jeremy
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